Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-18

-, Thou hast given a banner to them that fear
If no drunkard can enter heaven, can
he whose pulpit tongue silently abets a
system t hat makes drunkards? Broth
er, answh r on your knees with the BIZ
BILE before you.-The Echo, (Passaick,
N.J)
Nothing pleases prohibitionists more
than to have anti-prohiblt,onists show
up the Illegal doings of the drug stores.
With prohibitionists showing up the
evils Of the saloon, and anti-prohibi-
tionists unwittingly showing up the
evils which come from the evils of a
poor PHARMACY law, Iowa will soon be
rid of both, and we shall all be happi-
er and better. Let the brethren keep
right on enlightening the people IN re-
gard to the weakness of our pharmacy
law.
The difference between a high license
saloon and low dogg cry is, one is the
inlet to the rivulets of moderation, the
other the outlet to the river of drunken
ness. would rather vote for low
doggery, through which the drunkard
escapes into the grave from the demon
on his track, than for the gilded gate
way which opens the road to destruc-
ton for young men.
Col. Balm.
"The new law passed by the late Kan
sas Legislature, which is intended as a
backbone to the present prohibitory
law, is playing havoc with the liquor
trade in Kansas. The Kansas trade is
virtually killed. st. Louis Globe DEM
ocrat.
"For one, 1 denounce the advocates
of High License, in the name of child
hood bewildered and manhood betray-
ed; in the name OF womanhood tortur-
ed. and home violated and destroyed.
They are self-blinded to moral distinc-
tons; they have sold themselves to the
demon of expediency, and set their
grinding heels upon the pure face of
righteousness and ruth."-Frances E.
Willard.
Last year out of the pocket of the
laboring class alone s5oO,ooo,Oo0 for in
toxicating liquors. Within the past
four years, $2,OOO,0o000O. Turn this
amount loose tomorrow on your I'M
sold goods, and they. would melt like
mist before the rising sun. Many a
now barefooted boy would put his new
trousers in his red-topped boots, and
sing with pride a king might covet,
"This old world is growing better"
while bright-eyed, boyhood, laughing
girlhood, and happy womanhood would
praise God for this land and righteous
ly-ruled governme nt.-.Geo. w. Balm.
The Toledo Blaze says: "The claim
that prohibition Injuries business has
been proven a lie time and again. At
lanta has disproved, it Kansas has dis
proved it. Had tnere been a widely
circulated newspaper in Michigan that
had the courage to take the side of
right, the people Of, the cities would
not have been SO abominably misled.
Will anyone tell us how the suppress.
sion. of the liquor traffic can possibly
injure any legitimate business? The
reverse is the truth. The money that
now goes over the counters Of the rum
holes for body rots would bes.liverted
into the channels, Of legitimate trade,
and the business men would be the
gamers"
Prohibition iS a certainty in this
country, and that within very few
years.. Every civilized nation on earth
is looking for the greatest evil that
at1licts the earth. The fact that all
countries are trying to regulate it is an
admission that it is an evil, and the
centuries have demonstrated that there
is no sense whatever in trying to reg
ulate an evil. Evils are to be killed,
not regulated. The question Of to-day
is, whether the individual man shall
have the right, by means of poison,
to demoralize mankind for profit. 1t
is question, to which every working
man, every enlploye, every father and
every mother in the country had d.
rect answer. North American Review.
The following from the Chicago
Champion, the liqudr dealers national
organ, will give some idea of what
kind of a "picnic" they call prohibition
in Iowa:
Slowly, but increasingly, the prohl-
bition anaconda has been winding its
deathly COTS around the whole State,
strangling and cutting off the smaller
places first, and finally Concentrating
around larger towns, such as Des
Moines, Dubuque, DaveEpor Burling-
tOn. etc. From time to time tile CHAM